2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Sugar Sweetened Beverages

HNC2030 sugar-sweetened beverage indicator*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,057 1,127 29.8 28.0-31.6 2,930 70.2 68.4-72.0
Medicaid Region 3 547 140 28.4 24.2-33.1 407 71.6 66.9-75.8
GENDER
Male 250 73 34.3 27.7-41.6 177 65.7 58.4-72.3
Female 297 67 23.5 18.4-29.5 230 76.5 70.5-81.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 355 88 29.4 24.0-35.3 267 70.6 64.7-76.0
Non-Hispanic Black 101 24 23.0 15.3-33.1 77 77.0 66.9-84.7
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 194 56 33.5 26.3-41.5 138 66.5 58.5-73.7
45-64 183 47 25.6 19.3-33.1 136 74.4 66.9-80.7
65+ 154 34 23.7 16.5-32.9 120 76.3 67.1-83.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 159 62 38.1 29.9-47.0 97 61.9 53.0-70.1
Some Post-H.S. 158 48 31.2 23.9-39.6 110 68.8 60.4-76.1
College Graduate 227 30 14.8 10.2-21.0 197 85.2 79.0-89.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 159 49 32.1 24.1-41.2 110 67.9 58.8-75.9
$50,000+ 278 59 24.9 19.4-31.3 219 75.1 68.7-80.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 110 32 31.6 22.5-42.3 78 68.4 57.7-77.5

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*Yes=1+ drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

No=Less than 1 drink per day of either regular soda or pop that contains sugar or sugar-sweetened fruit drinks (such as Kool-aid and lemonade) or sweet tea, and sports or energy drinks (such as Gatorade and Red Bull).
Does not include diet soda, diet pop, 100% fruit juice, diet drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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